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Date:      Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:16:37 -0500
From:      Benjamin Greenwald <beng@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/termcap file
Message-ID:  <20001209111637.A1512@lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20001209131743.A477@nebula.cybercable.fr>; from mux@qualys.com on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:17:43PM %2B0100
References:  <20001209131743.A477@nebula.cybercable.fr>

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On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:17:43PM +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote:

>       Hi,
>
> I recently noticed that the FreeBSD /etc/termcap file is a symblinc
> link to /usr/share/misc/termcap. Is there any reason for this ? The
> problem is that when you boot into single user mode with boot -s, your
> /usr partition is not mounted, so tcsh won't found the termcap file,
> and a lot of applications aren't usable (vi is one of them).

Explain how you are going to run vi when it is also on /usr?

adara:~$ which vi 
/usr/bin/vi 
adara:~$


Clearly, if you have customized your install to put vi in another place,
you need to also customize the location of termcap.

-Ben


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